Severe penalties proposed for begging organization in RussiaLawmakers from the Just Russia party Sergey Mironov and Mikhail Emelyanov have submitted a bill on punishment for the organization of begging to the State Duma.15:55 16.02.2021
State Duma backs harsher punishment for unlawful pre-election campaigningLawmakers of the lower house of Russia’s parliament have supported in the second reading legislative amendments, which will permit to block dissemination of pre-election campaign materials where it is done in violation of law.14:14 16.02.2021
Russia’s Supreme Court submits criminal misdemeanor bill to State DumaThe Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has brought a bill envisaging that 112 legally defined crimes are to be qualified as criminal misdemeanors before the State Duma.12:28 16.02.2021
Bill regulating online social advertising reaches State DumaThe State Duma Committee for Information Policy has submitted to the lower house of Russia’s parliament a bill envisaging amendment of a federal law on advertising as concerns regulation of dissemination of social advertisements over the internet.14:49 11.02.2021
Parliament’s lower house greenlights tough sanctions for Nazism rehabilitationThe State Duma passed a draft law on stiff criminal and administrative penalties for rehabilitation of Nazism with the use of Internet in the first reading on Wednesday.17:22 10.02.2021
State Duma MPs pass draft law on stiffer fines for disobedience to policeThe lower house of Russian parliament adopted a bill on stiffer administrative fines for insubordination to law enforcement officers in the third and final reading on Wednesday.16:00 10.02.2021
Russian Human Rights Commissioner calls MPs to get on work on domestic violence billRussia’s Federal Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova on Wednesday called the State Duma lawmakers to continue their work on the domestic violence bill.15:05 10.02.2021
State Duma develops bill on representative offices of foreign IT-companies in RussiaThe State Duma Committee on Information Policy has started its work on a bill regulating the establishment of vested with necessary powers representative or branch offices of foreign internet companies in the territory of the Russian Federation.13:54 02.02.2021
Russia’s State Duma passes bill on fines for laughing gas propagandaThe lower house of parliament finally adopted a bill on administrative penalties for propagation and illegal advertising of exhilarant gas on Tuesday.14:33 26.01.2021
President introduces bill on removal of age limits for civil servants before State DumaRussia’s President Vladimir Putin has introduced a bill envisaging that state officials appointed by the Head of the State could stay on their posts without age limits into the State Duma.17:17 22.01.2021
Release of administrative fines proposed for special vehicles with flashing blue lightsSeveral Russian lawmakers have submitted a bill to relieve owners of emergency vehicles with flashing blue emergency beacons from administrative liability for traffic violations to the State Duma.15:29 22.01.2021
Russian lawmakers take stride to ban officials from holding dual citizenshipThe State Duma passed a Presidential bill prohibiting state and municipal officials to hold dual citizenship in the first reading on Wednesday.14:28 20.01.2021
Bill to simplify rules governing stay of foreign nationals in Russia reaches State DumaA bill envisaging that revocation of temporary residence permits or aliens’ resident cards of migrants repeatedly brought to administrative responsibility are to be prohibited in cases where such migrants have close relatives being Russian nationals who reside in the territory of the Russian Federation has been submitted to the State Duma.17:29 14.01.2021
Bill on compensation for illegal detention submitted to State DumaA bill on the non-pecuniary damage award for illegal detention of a person for up to 48 hours has been submitted to the lower house of Russia’s parliament.14:57 12.01.2021
State Duma MPs propose granting state protection to National Guard and military personnelA bill envisaging that state protection is to be granted to the personnel of the Interior Ministry, the military, and the National Guard has been submitted to the lower house of the Russian Parliament.16:02 11.01.2021
State Duma introduces tougher penalties for violations of law on foreign agentsThe State Duma has approved in the third and final reading a bill criminalizing willful evasion of responsibility to present documents necessary for registration as a foreign agent.15:48 23.12.2020
Russia’s State Duma adopts bill on increased use of biometrics systemThe State Duma had approved in the third and final reading a bill on increased use of the Unified Biometric Identification System, Chairman of the Association of Russian Lawyers Vladimir Gruzdev told RAPSI on Wednesday.14:17 23.12.2020
State Duma MPs make stride in prohibition of laughing gas propagandaThe State Duma adopted a bill fighting against propagation of free sale of exhilarant gas on Tuesday.12:37 22.12.2020
State Duma committee backs social media moderation amendmentsThe State Duma Committee on Information Policy on Monday supported amendments to a bill on the social networks’ obligations to moderate banned information.15:15 21.12.2020
People behind online defamation must be punished but not jailed - human rights body’s headChairman of Russia’s Presidential Council for Human Rights Valery Fadeyev believes that authors of defaming publications on the Internet must be punished with a fine but not with imprisonment.16:28 15.12.2020